wood-chopper

Enrico Piccolomini was a wood-chopper on the Kennan Ranch.

CHAPTER XXXVI

Thus, the poor telegrapher may develop into an excellent wood-chopper.

THE TRAMP

This was a fine adjustment, for by working hammer-and - tongs through a twelve-hour day, after freight had been deducted from the selling price of the wood in Los Angeles, the wood-chopper received one dollar and sixty cents.

Chapter V

Goodwives affirm that it is no rarity to encounter at nightfall, in secluded nooks of the forest, a black man with the air of a carter or a wood-chopper, wearing wooden shoes, clad in trousers and a blouse of linen, and recognizable by the fact, that, instead of a cap or hat, he has two immense horns on his head.

Les Miserables

Had I not two shoulders like a giant, and two strong hands to work with? and had I not, in sooth, even applied for a place as wood-chopper in Möllergaden in order to earn my daily bread?

Hunger

There is another class of labourers who make themselves particularly conspicuous in the streets of Vienna, and that is the “holzhacker,” or wood-chopper.

A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France

R----, which numbered some really very worthy and intelligent members, but of course included some that were otherwise, among whom was a silly young fellow, who had mistaken his proper calling -- (he should have been a wood-chopper), and was suffering under an attack _at_ medicine.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

Zechariah Merica, who, Wm. said, was a "low ignorant man, not above a common wood-chopper, and owned no other slave property than William."

The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.

But as the years went on many men came to the forest and felled the trees, not with axes but with huge saws; and so Hans was turned away, for no one wanted a wood-chopper now.

Dreamland

The wood-chopper frequently squanders this precious store.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866